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1 notes on reading the post-partum document mary kelly THE DISCOURSE OF THE WOMEN S MOVEMENT The Post-Partum Document is located within the theoretical and political practice of the women s movement, a practice which foregrounds the issues of subjectivity and ideological oppression. More specifically, the Document is identified with the tendency that bases the notion of ideological oppression on a psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity, that is, the unconscious. 1 Freud s discovery of the unconscious had crucial implications for theorizing the process by which human subjects become constituted in ideology. If there is no ideology except in practice and by a subject, then ideological oppression is not merely false consciousness. The ideological refers not only to systems of representation but also to a nonunitary complex of social practices which have political consequences. Moreover, these consequences are not given as the direct effect of the means of signification employed in a practice. They depend on a political analysis of what is signified. 2 For the purposes of such an analysis, the Post-Partum Document is the product of a practice of signification, and as such, it does not reflect but reworks the feminist ideology in which
2 mary kelly notes on reading the post-partum document 371 it was founded. This is primarily the ideology of consciousness-raising groups that still form a major part of the women s movement. The Document reiterates, at one level, the unique contribution that consciousness-raising made to political practice in general by emphasizing the subjective moment of women s oppression. 3 But, at another level, it argues against the supposed self-sufficiency of lived experience and for a theoretical elaboration of the social relations in which femininity is formed. In this sense, the Post-Partum Document functions as part of an ongoing debate over the relevance of psychoanalysis to the theory and practice of both Marxism and feminism. Furthermore, the debate includes a critique of the patriarchal bias underlying some of the theoretical assumptions on which the Document is based. 4 THE DISCOURSE OF THE MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIP The Post-Partum Document describes the subjective moment of the mother-child relationship. An analysis of this relationship is crucial to an understanding of the way in which ideology functions in/by the material practices of childbirth and child care. Feeding or dressing a child depends as much on the interchange of a system of signs as teaching him/her to speak or write. In a sense, even the unconscious discourse of these moments is structured like a language. 5 This underlines the fact that intersubjective relationships are fundamentally social. More precisely, every social practice offers a specific expression of a general social law and this law is the symbolic dimension which is given in language. 6 In patriarchy, the phallus becomes the privileged signifier of this symbolic dimension. 7 Although the subject is constituted in a relation of lack at the moment of his/her entry into language, it is possible to speak specifically of the woman s negative place in the general process of significations or social practices that reproduce patriarchal relations within a given social formation. In childbirth, the mother s negative place is misrecognized insofar as the child is the phallus for her. 8 This imaginary relation is lived through, at the level of ideology and in the social practice of child care, as proof of the natural capacity for maternity and the inevitability of the sexual division of labor. 9 The documentations of specific moments such as weaning from the breast, learning to speak, and entering a nursery demonstrate the reciprocity of the process of socialization, that is, the intersubjective discourse through which not only the child but also the mother is constituted as subject.
3 372 THE DISCOURSE OF WOMEN S PRACTICE IN ART The Post-Partum Document forms part of the problematic of women s practice in art. The problematic includes a symptomatic reading of the visual inscriptions of women artists. Such a reading, based as much on absences as presences, suggest the way in which the realm of the feminine is bounded by negative signification in the order of language and culture. Because of this coincidence of language and patriarchy, the feminine is, metaphorically, set on the side of the heterogeneous, the unnamable, the unsaid. But the radical potential of women s art practice lies precisely in this coincidence, since, insofar as the feminine is said, it is profoundly subversive. 10 However, the Post-Partum Document is not an excavation of female culture, or a valorization of the female body or of feminine experience as such; it is an attempt to articulate the feminine as discourse, and therefore places the emphasis on the intersubjective relationships which constitute the female subject. 11 Currently in women s art practice, there is a proliferation of forms of signification where the artist s own person, in particular her body, is given as a signifier, that is, as object. In the Document, as a means of distantiation, the figure of the mother is not visibly present. Although it is a self-documentation of the mother-child relationship, here between myself and my son, the Post-Partum Document does not describe the unified, transcendental subject of autobiography, but rather, the decentered, socially constituted subject of a mutual discourse. Moreover, this subject is fundamentally divided. There is a conscious/ unconscious split which has operations characteristic of both sides: the signifying processes or drives on the one hand, and the social constraints such as family structures or modes of production on the other. 12 The means of signification used in the Document are scriptovisual in order to articulate the gap left by this split, that is, to show how the unconscious processes irrupt into a signifying practice and cut across the systematic order of language and, also, to show the difficulty of the symbolic order for women. In the Post-Partum Document, the art objects are used as fetish objects, explicitly to displace the potential fetishization of the child and implicitly to expose the typically fetishistic function of representation. 13 The stained liners, folded vests, child s markings, and word imprints have a minimum sign value in relation to the commodity status of representational art, but they have a maximum affective value in relation to the libidinal economy of the unconscious. They are representations, in the psychoanalytic sense, of the cathected memory traces. 14 These traces, in combination with the diaries, speech events, and feeding charts, construct the discourse of the mother s lived experience. At the same time, they are set up in an
4 NOTES 1. The Post-Partum Document is most closely associated with the debate that surfaced after the publication in 1974 of Juliet Mitchell s book, Psychoanalysis and Feminism, and in particular with a Lacanian reading of Freud, which was in strong evidence as a theoretical tendency at the Patriarchy Conference in London in May A seminar entitled Psychoanalysis and Feminism was organized during the showing of the Post-Partum Document at the ICA New Gallery in October The relevance of psychoanalysis to ideology, feminine psychology, and art practice was discussed by a panel on which I was a participant along with Parveen Adams, lecturer in psychology, Brunel University; Susan Lipshitz, psychologist, The Tavistock; filmmaker Laura Mulvey; and writer Rosalind Delmar. 2. Paul Q. Hirst, Althusser s Theory of Ideology, Economy and Society 5(November1976),p. 396; see also section on Representation, pp Rosalind Coward, Sexuality and Psychoanalysis, unpublished paper, For a useful outline of the debate see the Editorial Collective s article on Psychology, Ideology, and the Human Subject in Ideology and Consciousness 1(May1977),pp.5 56.The critique concerns Lacan s acceptance of the universality of language, c. f. Luce Irigary, Speculum de l Autre Femme (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1974). See also Women s Exile: An Interview with Luce Irigary, trans. Couze Penn, Ideology and Consciousness 1(May1977), pp See Jacques Lacan, The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious, in Structuralism (New York: Anchor Books, 1970), pp Julia Kristeva, The System and the Speaking Subject, Times Literary Supplement (October 12, 1973). 7. For an elaboration of the consequences in terms of sexual difference, see Jacques Lacan, La Signification du phallus, Ecrits (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1966), pp Misrecognition here refers specifically to Lacan s sense of the term as in the function of misrecognition which characterizes the ego in all its structures, and not to ideological misrecmary kelly notes on reading the post-partum document 373 antagonistic relationship with the diagrams, algorithms, and footnotes which construct the discourse of feminist analysis. In the context of an installation, this analysis is not meant to definitively theorize the Post-Partum moment, but rather to describe a process of secondary revision. In a sense, this text is also included in that process not as a topology of intention, but as a rewriting of the discourse of the Document which is at once a repression and a reactivation of its consequences.
5 374 ognitions. See Jacques Lacan, The Mirror Phase as Formative of the Function of the I, New Left Review 5, vol (1968), pp The sexual division of labor is not a symmetrically structured system of women inside the home, men outside it, but rather an intricate, most often asymmetrical, delegation of tasks which aims to provide a structural imperative to heterosexuality. Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document, Footnotes and Bibliography, (ICA New Gallery, 1976), p See Julia Kristeva, Signifying Practice and Mode of Production in La Traversée designes (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975), trans. and intro. Geoffery Nowel-Smith, Edinburgh Magazine 1(1976). 11. In Art and Sexual Politics I defined the forms/means of signification employed in women s art practice in terms of the underlying structures of feminine narcissism, based metaphorically on Freud s description of narcissistic object choice in On Narcissism: An Introduction (1914), Collected Papers 4, p. 47. See also Women s Practice in Art, Susan Hiller and Mary Kelly in conversation, Audio Arts 3, no. 3 (1977), and Women and Art, Studio International 3(1977). 12. Julia Kristeva, The System and the Speaking Subject, Times Literary Supplement (October 12, 1973), c. f. the splitting of the subject, Marcelin Pleynet, de Pictura, trans. Stephen Bann, 20th Century Studies (December 1977). 13. See Stephen Heath on fetishism and representation in classic cinema and popular photography, Lessons from Brecht, Screen 15 (Summer 1974); see also Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Screen 16 (Autumn 1975). 14. J. Laplanche and J. B. Pontalis, The Language of the Self (London: Hogarth Press, 1973), p For Freud, the idea/presentation/representation is to be understood as what comes from the object and is registered in mnemic systems, and not as the act of presenting an object to consciousness; ibid., p. 247, memory trace/mnemic trace is used by Freud to denote the way in which events are inscribed upon the memory, they are deposited in different systems and reactivated only once they have been cathected; ibid., p. 62, cathexis is an economic concept pertaining to the fact that a certain amount of psychical energy is attached to an idea or group of ideas, a part of the body, or an object. This text was written for a seminar entitled Psychoanalysis and Feminism, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, during the exhibition of Post-Partum Document (PPD) I-III (1976). It was first published in Control Magazine, no. 10 (1977), pp
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